当代英语语言文学批评之父塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治,对于十九世纪的加拿大文学批评没有产生多大影响,这主要是由于加拿大的文学界具有一种维多利亚时期英国的反理论倾向。二十世纪初,文学批评才在加拿大开始发展,但也只能说是步入后尘,毫无创新可言,根本谈不上“加拿大”文学批评。然而,随着马歇尔·麦克卢汉与诺斯罗普·弗莱的批评著作的问世,加拿大文学批评出现了一个前所未有的新局面。麦克 The rule of law by Samuel Taylor Cole, the father of contemporary English language and literary criticism, did not have much impact on Canadian literary criticism in the 19th century, mainly because Canadian literary circles had a tendency of anti-rationality in the Victorian era. At the beginning of the twentieth century, literary criticism began to develop in Canada. However, it can only be said that there is no future for innovation and no “Canadian” literary criticism at all. However, with the advent of critical writings by Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, Canadian literary criticism has seen an unprecedented new situation. Mike